Otherworld

Definitions

1. The other realms of existence beyond the world of mankind, especially the realms of the dead or the fairy folk.
2. A world beyond death; an afterlife.
3. A world other than the everyday world.
4. A mythical abode of otherworldly beings.

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Examples

“In these dreams the spirits of the Otherworld materialized in the shape⟳ of animals and spoke to them.”

“It is a time when folk remember⟳ their Ancestors in the Otherworlds and when the veil between the worlds is so thin that, with a little magic, you could pass⟳ through it.”

“The spiritual skill that above all identifies the shaman is the ability to go into trance and journey through the Otherworld at will.”

“We do not want⟳, of course, to return⟳ to all the crudities and barbarities of the past; but also we do not want⟳ to become⟳ attenuated and spiritualized out of all mundane sense⟳ and recognition, and to live⟳ in an otherworld Paradise void of application to earthly affairs.”

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